The Corner (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
From the top of her column: Wednesday afternoon, in a live MSNBC television panel hosted by NBC's political analyst Chuck Todd, and along with Republican strategist Mike Murphy, we discussed Sarah Palin's speech this evening to the Republican National Convention. I said she has to tell us in her speech who she is, what she believes, and why she's here. We spoke of Republican charges that the media...
Slog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
National Review 's Corner blog has a long-winded and difficult-to-understand explanation by Peggy Noonan about what she said was "over" when her mic was live today on MSNBC . In our off-air conversation, I got on the subject of the leaders of the Republican party assuming, now, that whatever the base of the Republican party thinks is what America thinks. I made the case that this is no longer true,...
Glass House (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Scott Rosenberg has a good post looking at a few topics; first the fallout from yet another live mike incident, second the feeling that there is a big difference between what journalists/columnists/politicians sometimes say or write, and what they really think. Live mike incidents tend to catch these; these are often called a Kinsley Gaffe . In this case, Scott notes: Now, if Peggy Noonan wrote a...
